Lenin made the following notation: "NB Directive (resolution) of the Communist Faction of the Central Union. To Fotiyeva: Send a letter, text p. 5 verso." Ed.

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4) How many responses concerning the size (of surpluses and raw materials that can be obtained in exchange for this-or-that) do the peasants have? Grain? Other foodstuffs? Industrial raw materials? etc. How much was exchanged during the reporting period? what was exchanged for what? In my view, there are still no such reports, and there's nothing. Only talk. Awaiting a response.

V. I. Lenin.

¹ Molotov V. M. — Secretary of the CC of the Party. Bryukhanov N. P. — People's Commissar for Food Supply.

² The resolution was sent to Lenin by the Communist Faction of the Congress of Delegates of the Central Union (July 16—23, 1921), whose work was to determine the forms and boundaries of the Central Union's activity under the conditions of the New Economic Policy.

At the Congress, in addition to questions connected with the direct activity of cooperation in the sphere of commodity exchange, organization, etc., questions of international situation, foreign trade (L. B. Krasin), and international cooperation were raised. In addition to plenary sessions, sections were organized. Lenin followed the Congress closely and greeted it with a letter (see Lenin, Works, vol. XXVI, p. 470).